Not be a group hug starts in just seconds. Check it out. Log on. We would love to hear from you. Ask this is a fox news alert. A senior white house official confirming president obama is considering sending Ground Troops to iraq. Deputy National Security advisor ben rhodes saying president obama could decide in just days whether to send in Ground Troops to rescue thousands of religious refugees who are trapped on a mountaintop. And fox news also confirming a team of American Special ops landing on mount and spending 24 hours there to assess the best way to evacuated refugees. Landed in mount sinjar iraq time. Greg with the very latest. Greg . Greta, yeah, a lot of action in this part of the world. Those extra troops that have
come here to Northern Iraq are based in this city not too far from where we are and we believe those special force operators that spent that time, you were talking with on mount sinjar to the left of this location this space as well. A lot of action over there as you noted their mission was to assess a possible Evacuation Route for those ethic minority. It is confirmed by fox news that those special operators, some 20 of them are now safely off of that mountain. The battle is by no means over. Centcom is also confirming today yet another missile strike against isis positions nearby mount sinjar, trying to clear that whole area of militants and making any rescue operation that could be planned that could be led by the United States a safe one. That is never a sure bet. No, it is not just these people being targeted by the isis militants it is a
another of other religions and ethnic group including christians. There is Something Like 100,000 maybe more in the past several days and weeks from isis. We spent some time with a group of them at an encampment outside of a church here in erville. Some were robbed. Some had to flee with the clothes on their back. Just about all of them told me that they were sentenced to death if they did not convert to islam. They decided not to but they decided to flee. Now, we saw the hungry, the thirsty, the tired, the hurt. We saw parents who were worried about their kids. We heard from kids who were worried about missing school. Many of them were asking, were begging for international help. Greta, i asked several of them how did it feel for you to be singled out for death by me militants just because you were Christian Christian . One man summed up an attitude we heard from a lot of people no religion should allow. This back to you. Greg, thank you. And there is news tonight
about possible u. S. Ground troops being sent to iraq. Deputy National Security advisor ben rhodes speaking for the president says the president is considering sending Ground Troops as part of a coordinated rescue mission with Kurdish Forces and european allies. Former u. N. Ambassador john bolton joins us. Good evening, sir. Good evening. Is that enough . Well, there are really two separate objectives here. One is to provide assistance for the refugees and the other is to provide protection. And there are separate operations. Although they are related in the sense that probably the best way to do both is to get them farther away from the isis forces. And i think that must be the first thing that the assessors that they have sent in are looking at. The president says, at least we understand if he is going to send Ground Forces in its only for the humanitarian mission. Heres the problem, we may be able to get them off the mountaintop and get them to safety but you have 100,000 on the ground. You are not doing much of humanitarian mission for
100,000. Thats what he said is it was fewerly to supplies we havent done that effectively as well. Some of the numbers we have heard on refugees go well beyond what why have just heard. I have heard 100,000. Maybe more. This is a huge logistical effort to provide assistance even if isis were not a military threat. When you add the military threat it gets much more complicated and dangerous. We had experience with this after the first persian gulf war in 1991, protecting the kurds of all people in Northern Iraq. Its not easy to do. How do you possibly do humanitarian work if you dont take out the terrorist army of isis because, i mean, what are we going to do just feed them as they get shot and killed and persecuted . This is the threat. And i think the first step is to separate the refugees from isis if you can. Thats a military action though, isnt it . If isis continues to
advance behind the refugees, then you are maced with potential combat even as you are trying to provide assistance. Peace thats where it gets very difficult for a president. The they can only do so much given of the limb division stations if a they face. This what want to do it the way the u. S. Military would propose to do it would require an extensive increase of forces on the ground. Help us so for its strands fraps beings australia, frrky this is a poor performance by multilateral president s. Coming pack to the current refugee flows we got u. N. Security Council Resolution 688 the First Time International everagree flows to ever bln auto athletic. I any thats what the Obama Administration ought to be doing. I think the president ought
to be on the phone to every leader of the 15 countries on the Security Council. The other 14 he ought to be talking to leaders all over the world to put together an International Coalition at a minimum to help on the humanitarian side but beyond that look isis is a threat. I think if you were serious about using the Security Council you would try to get a resolution take a look at this video the navy just recently released it the pilots are in the air but still at risk. How much risk . Joining us retired air force colonel martha mc, she was the first female pilot running for arizona congressional seat. Good evening. Hi, greta. You flew the a 10 wart hog which i have learned is guardian in the sky to protect troops on the ground. Dangerous business doing
this stuff. Tell me how much are our pilots at risk who are doing air drops and also taking out certain isis members and their tanks . Well, every time he we fly into Enemy Territory as a pilot, you know, we are at risk. You are at risk of potential small arms fire or rocket propelled grenades, rpgs or other missiles. We could have some sort of emergency where you have eject. Every time we launch for one of these missions, you know, we are ready to go and survive on the ground. Evade. We have got the training to be able to deal with that you are always at risk every time you go on a mission like this. Actually the a10 would be wellsuited for this situation because we do fly low and very survival with longer times and hit targets and not hurt any Friendly Forces or civilians that are in close proximity. If you have clear military targets which you have had you can go in j tax. Joint Terminal Attack Controllers and give the pilots the opportunity to find and identify those targets hilt them identify them. It appears changing tactics from less conventional and blend go ahead in more with the population. Much more difficult to do that without a j tack. You need to find and fix and finish those targets and so doing that just from the air without the guy on the ground saying thats the target. Decorn flicketd the Friendly Forces making sure there is no civilian casualties that is very challenging to do just from the air especially when they start blending more into the population. All right. Best case scenario, assuming we werent all war weary and concerned about some things, how do you take out isis . Well, you know, first of all we should have seen this coming. The Obama Administration has failed and just watched this
threat as a cancer and metastasizing a cancer. Its been growing in its capability. Its been bank rolling itself, you know. So we have seen this threat coming. And now we are already in a crisis because we have watched it happen and done nothing about it. But it is a threat not just for the humanitarian situation, we cannot have a failed state in iraq and syria that is a safe haven for jihadists to be trained. They want to come out and obviously hurt us as well. This is an International Crisis at this point that the Obama Administration should have seen coming. He needs to start leading the International Community in order to address this threat because it is a a very serious threat. They are very capable, i would say more capable than al qaeda on 9 11 and it needs to be addressed seriously. Right now, military solution is not the only answer though. But we have got to take away those military capabilities and then address it politically as well. Colonel, thank you very much for joining us. Surely, thanks for having me on, greta. Not just in iraq. Christians under attack. Terrifying news about the american pastor in prison for being christian. Death threats from ice says territory. The prison has been told that the terrorists now have much a plan to kill him in the prison pus of his christian faith. You will here more this from pastors pif of christians under attack thats this friday 7 p. M. Eastern. If you wont be home set your dvrs right now because you dont want to miss it. Lets go off the record for a minute. I hate war and im war weary. And i know you feel the exact same way. These wars have been tough and really tough for some families. Some wars are necessary but not all. The u. S. Cant police the world and we cant solve every problem of every nation. We have a lot of problems here at home we need to attend to. How do we decide when we should get involved with
problems thousands of miles away and for people we havent even met . I would go back and for the. Owned, i cant stand to see people suffer. Others troops doing that how do we decide . Last night on the record 7 00 p. M. Lt. Colonel oliver north said. This. If we dont take steps now to prevent this from happening, 25 years from now our kids and grand kids will say what were you doing pause you cant claim you didnt know it. People still say they didnt know about the holocaust until the 1940s. Ollie is right. What happened to jew notice holocaust is absolutely unthinkable some claim not to know. This time we all know. No one has an excuse. What is going on in iraq could be genocide and the world looked the other way 20 years ago with the genocide in rwanda. Lets not make that grievous mistake again. We have to stop ice cities
whatever it takes. Thats my offtherecord comment tonight. Now tonights big event. I would so kill to be the fly on the wall for this one. President obama and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton are going to be at the same Birthday Party on marthas vineyard. Obama and clinton on again off again relationship. Slamming president obama Foreign Policy joe trippi joins us. Do you want to be that fly on the wall, too . Lets hug. Come on. Lets do it. Like huggology. How about bad is this . You if he, i dont think its bad. Axelrod doesnt like it but in 2008 hillary lost the election by being to the right of barack obama. She lost the primary fight to him because she was for the iraqi war when he had opposed it. And so its kind of interesting, its sort of, you ask the question like does she really understand
how big the shift in the democratic primary electorate is since george bush that she is now, again, stating wanted standing to the right of him and i understand how it positions her in a general election, but this could invite an Elizabeth Warren or a sanders from vermont. Or maly. Thats what i mean, plenty of people. So i think its positioning for a general election and separating from the president. But in the same way, making the mistake that happened in 2008. Joe, if there is a slaughter of christians in iraq, i mean, how Democratic Party just sort of look the other way and say well, you know. Thats tough . No, i think. I mean. They are going to protect her. I think the finest moment for americans will be when we get those people off those mountain. The problem is we get those people off the mountain and we can all take a bow and be very proud of
our troops and proud of the taxpayers who have paid taxes to do. This but the problem is there are there can be between 100,000 according to greg palkot and ambassador bolton says he has heard up to 250,000 christians who are just standing in line and isis says that convert or im going to kill you. How about those people . Isis say that. Owe have got friends. I worked in iraq. I think what the u. S. Is doing right now stopped that place from collapsing made a
difference in morale among the kurdish people. Now its getting to a lot of the things that maliki and the iraqis we cant want this more than they do. And in the end, it is the iraqi people that have got to come together and solve this problem. The u. S. Can stall. Except that isis move. Do you go back to what colin powell says, you know, its like, we broke it so we bought it in a sense that whatever the expression is because we did go in there, there were no weapons of mass destruction but none the less we went in there. I believe that. When i went there, i thought i was against the work. When i got there i said we broke it we have got to fix it. We came back and all my progression friends are crazy crazy. The last american boot levies the ground there it
was going to fall apart it was going to happen today or 10 years from now. I agree with you you, joe, i was if there kurd tan that area in december. They want to do well and they everywhere ellie doing well. Most stablist in iraq. And i was in irril. If it falls thats unmitigated disaster. Joe, nice to see you. Nice to be with you. Joining us our legal panel, nina easton, Betsy Woodruff and stephan let me go back to Hillary Clinton problem. What did she say about president obamas Foreign Policy in that atlantic interview. Was that an accident . A misstatement . Something she regrets . Misgoated or what . What misquoted. You are suggesting Something Like that was an accident with Hillary Clinton . Please. It was ha shot across the bough, right . It was a shot across the bough. By the way i want to say about this hug fest thing it worries about me about mugging because in of mafia frims we have got pulling out a knife attacking twidder over not saying its not a stupid policy. Its important to remember that clinton is distickets from obama in a different did is. Separate from him on policy points beyond the student tough imlentd. Woe did want to bettenned arm in syria. I think going back to your conversation with joe. Ing if ice sis is able to establish a calafate which, by the way is not just a regional problem, is not just a humanitarian problem. Its a clear and present danger to the United States, if that happens, were going to hear a lot more about Hillary Clinton having wanted to keep residual forces in iraq as she did. An american presence as a stabilizing bores. Foreign policy could be very well front and center in 2006. Betsy. Your thoughts on this whole hillary president obama problem . Well, if this hug diplomacy is effective maybe they can figure out some sort of immigration solution. As far as the Hillary Clinton goes she was in favor of arming but she was agnostic about it at times. She secretary of defense if we support these phis there can could be precautions . We have to bailey that i. U. N. And she can say whether or not this is a poo test rgment most of these crisis that blew up to the on her watch. I that strikes me forgive her buy i dont think the first lady wont. I dont know that president obama actually does forgive her except another marriage of convenience for the clintons in this case. Just like george w. Bush had to depend on john mccain the guy on if he won would have protected the president s legacy. He has to decide how much does he push back or and how much does he get her elected to run the campaign the way she wants to do it because if you a puck being republican win hurts even more. I think im a little too thin citizen inned. She went straight at him and then the back. The whole thing seems so weird to go far out and then left it out. You are left standing there hillary what do i know about you at this point. Panel, staffs. Literally teens setting themselves on fire. You will see it its called the fire challenge. We will talk about who should be held responsible
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